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j) 52. The 'House of the Frescoes'.
Town area North- West of Palace—earlier and later group of houses ;
Exploration of ' House of the Frescoes'; Within zone of Greek and Roman
Occupation ; Entrance system of House and general plan ; Stack of painted
stucco fragments; Underlying stratum of 'Repositories' date; Room of
painted. Vases—Double-Axe decoration ; Pottery M. M. Illh and L. M. /a ;
Votive Stone 'Ladle' and inscribed Libation Table ; Recurring ritual formula
and lion s head sign ; Painted linear characters on fragments of 7call plaster—
their great size; Linear Type of Class A; Wall inscriptions probably of
religious character ; Painted stucco decoration preserved on walls of two lower
rooms ; The Fresco Deposit; Reconstitution of designs from stacked fragments ;
Wild natural scenes—rocks, flowers, and animal forms ; Monkeys, copied from
West African Green monkey derived through Egyptian medium ; The monkey
in the papyrus thicket; Parallel with desert belts on Egyptian paintings in
Tomb of Kenamou ; On which side zuas the indebtedness ? Minoan suo-<restion
in colour tone of Kenamou paintings; Minoan features in monkey panel;
1 realment of rock-work—cut stones; Convention of rocks descending from
above; Landscape with Blue Bird—a Roller; Wild roses and Pancratium
lily; Crocus clumps mechanically repeated; Width and position of friezes—■
their frames ; Fresco depicting jet d'eau—Minoan skill in hydrostatics ; Dis-
covery of conduit from spring of Mavrokoly bo ; Evidences of greater rainfall—
change 171 flora ; Artistic variations in details and colouring of flowers—the
' Sacral Lvy' ; Marine types less common in ' House of the Frescoes '; The
cultured home of a small burgher.
We turn once more to the course of discovery beyond the North- Town
Western border of the Palace site. Between the West Court and the N.W.ol
'Royal Road', discovered at an early stage of the excavations, lay an Palace:
■« . , & groups of
unexplored region, which from its position would certainly have formed houses.
a centre of civic life.
Excavations undertaken in this area in 1923, supplemented by these
°f 1926, showed in fact that this, too, was thickly set with Minoan town
houses. The upper stratum of these belonged, like those described in the
previous Sections, to the beginning of the New Era, and to the great
age of rebuilding that succeeded the Earthquake of M. M. Ill 3. Beneath
these, however, were remains of earlier houses, the last elements dating, as
elsewhere, from the epoch that immediately preceded that great catastrophe.
Town area North- West of Palace—earlier and later group of houses ;
Exploration of ' House of the Frescoes'; Within zone of Greek and Roman
Occupation ; Entrance system of House and general plan ; Stack of painted
stucco fragments; Underlying stratum of 'Repositories' date; Room of
painted. Vases—Double-Axe decoration ; Pottery M. M. Illh and L. M. /a ;
Votive Stone 'Ladle' and inscribed Libation Table ; Recurring ritual formula
and lion s head sign ; Painted linear characters on fragments of 7call plaster—
their great size; Linear Type of Class A; Wall inscriptions probably of
religious character ; Painted stucco decoration preserved on walls of two lower
rooms ; The Fresco Deposit; Reconstitution of designs from stacked fragments ;
Wild natural scenes—rocks, flowers, and animal forms ; Monkeys, copied from
West African Green monkey derived through Egyptian medium ; The monkey
in the papyrus thicket; Parallel with desert belts on Egyptian paintings in
Tomb of Kenamou ; On which side zuas the indebtedness ? Minoan suo-<restion
in colour tone of Kenamou paintings; Minoan features in monkey panel;
1 realment of rock-work—cut stones; Convention of rocks descending from
above; Landscape with Blue Bird—a Roller; Wild roses and Pancratium
lily; Crocus clumps mechanically repeated; Width and position of friezes—■
their frames ; Fresco depicting jet d'eau—Minoan skill in hydrostatics ; Dis-
covery of conduit from spring of Mavrokoly bo ; Evidences of greater rainfall—
change 171 flora ; Artistic variations in details and colouring of flowers—the
' Sacral Lvy' ; Marine types less common in ' House of the Frescoes '; The
cultured home of a small burgher.
We turn once more to the course of discovery beyond the North- Town
Western border of the Palace site. Between the West Court and the N.W.ol
'Royal Road', discovered at an early stage of the excavations, lay an Palace:
■« . , & groups of
unexplored region, which from its position would certainly have formed houses.
a centre of civic life.
Excavations undertaken in this area in 1923, supplemented by these
°f 1926, showed in fact that this, too, was thickly set with Minoan town
houses. The upper stratum of these belonged, like those described in the
previous Sections, to the beginning of the New Era, and to the great
age of rebuilding that succeeded the Earthquake of M. M. Ill 3. Beneath
these, however, were remains of earlier houses, the last elements dating, as
elsewhere, from the epoch that immediately preceded that great catastrophe.